A township utility virtual machine cannot ping its gateway even though the ESXi host is powered on and healthy. Operators find the virtual machine attached to the wrong vSphere network. What determines that virtual machine's Layer-2 attachment?
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Short Explanation
The host can be wide awake and the guest still plugged into the wrong jack. Connectivity follows the vNIC's port group—or an opaque NSX segment—not the power LED, the disk groups, or a Horizon pool.
Full Explanation
A vSphere virtual machine's Layer-2 attachment is determined by which port group or opaque NSX segment its vNIC is connected to. A healthy, powered-on ESXi host does not place the guest on the correct network by itself. vSAN disk-group count is a storage property. Horizon desktop pools are an end-user computing construct and do not select the vSphere or NSX network for this utility VM.